Testing with Speed Compensation

The Xena testers can verify traffic forwarding performance, protocol scalability and services delivering capabilities of switching and routing devices across the enterprise, metro/edge and core.

Prior to stress testing the forwarding capability, special consideration must be applied to eliminate potential packet loss caused by small differences in line rates between the Xena test ports and the network ports of the Device-Under-Test (DUT). This application note uses an example test setup with a HP Procurve 2900 24G switch to illustrate how to compensate for small differences in line rates between the Xena tester and the DUT.